2022: DevTool Industry Year in Review

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  Mina BenothmanGrowth Marketing Manager
  Heavybit

Happy New Year and welcome back! Before we forge ahead with 2023 programming and content, we want to take some time to reflect on all the exciting things that happened for the devtools industry last year, as well as thank the community, advisors, and leaders, that made it happen.

January

• Pendo acquires Mind the Product to boost global product manager community
• MariaDB becomes a publicly traded company
• Were these the biggest IPOs to watch in 2022?

February

• Bootstrapped startup Cloudinary becomes $2 billion unicorn
• Aserto, the developer API for permissions and RBAC, becomes open to all
• VCs caution about the impact on private markets

March

• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency floats Zero Trust roadmap for agencies
• Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
• Developer platforms and data stacks dominate the Enterprise Tech 30

April

• Google, Databricks, Fivetran, Redis and others launch the Data Cloud Alliance
• Atlassian's Jira outage lasts weeks as the company slowly recovers
• Venture slowdown impacts fundraising for startups of every size, sector

May

• Orbit acquires Hoopy to expand its DevRel offerings
• The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source
• GitHub mandates 2FA to help secure the software supply chain

June

• Sanity announces investment from Shopify and launches a direct integration
• DataStax raises $115M round, valuation hits $1.6B
• Data suggests that a recession looms

July

• Netlify invests in 10 startups to promote Jamstack
• Stripe reportedly lowers internal valuation
• LocalStack announces 1.0 general availability

August

• Forbes releases this year’s Cloud 100
• Twitter’s former security chief says company lied about bots and safety
• GitLab announces plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

September

• Heavybit announces its latest $80M fund
• Designers worry Adobe won’t let Figma flourish
• The Senate introduces bipartisan legislation to help secure open source software

October

• Cloudflare promises $1.25 billion to startups that use its own platform
• How will you feel if Copi­lot erases your open-source com­mu­nity?
• Remix joins forces with Shopify

November

• Despite big layoffs, tech workers are still in demand
• Why Twitter didn’t go down: from a real Twitter SRE
• Protocol, a website focused on tech shuts down

December

• SPACs collapse as $11 billion of deals are called off within an hour
• Department of Defense releases Zero Trust strategy and roadmap
• Industry experts offer their 2023 DevOps predictions

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